Dear Students and Colleagues at US institutions,
I'd like to remind you about regular funding opportunities for
linguists and language scientists at the National Science Foundation
(next target date: July 15), call your attention to revised
guidelines for CAREER proposals (deadline: July 27), and mention a
few other opportunities. Links are on the NSF Linguistics webpage, at
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/ling/.
1. For doctoral students
Dissertation research grants cover up to $12,000 of dissertation
research costs. They are submitted by the faculty supervisor (PI) on
behalf of the doctoral student (co-PI), and are generally a concise
version of the student's dissertation proposal (the project
description is just 10 pages). Past budget items have included video
cameras and tape recorders; special software and corpora; travel and
subsistence for field research; payments to subjects, consultants or
informants. Target dates are July 15 and Jan. 15 each year, for start
dates about 6 months later. There are no citizenship restrictions.
This is a nice program with a success rate of about 40%.
2. International postdocs; minority postdocs
NSF's International Division supports postdoctoral fellowships abroad
(deadline: Nov. 1), and the Directorate of Social, Behavioral and
Economic Sciences has a minority postdoctoral fellowship program
(deadline: first Friday in December). These programs receive very few
applications from linguists.
3. For junior faculty
The NSF CAREER program has been substantially revised. Highlights of
this year's competition: application deadline for linguistics is July
27th; minimum award is $250,000; duration is 5 years; applicants must
have earned their first doctorate after October 1, 1992, have entered
their first tenure-track position after October 1 1996, be untenured
as of July 24, and as of Oct. 1 2001 be employed in a tenure-track
position at an institution in the U.S., its territories or
possessions, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, that awards
baccalaureate or advanced degrees in a field supported by NSF. Please
read the guidelines at http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf0089. The
Linguistics program receives few CAREER proposals, and I'd like to
see many more. Success rate this year was about 50%.
4. Regular research, workshops, SGER, MRPG
For faculty and researchers beyond the doctorate, the Linguistics
program accepts regular research proposals and proposals for
workshops, small conferences and symposia. Target dates are July 15
and Jan. 15 each year, with possible start dates 6 months later.
Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER) proposals to explore new
ideas may be submitted at any time; please contact me to discuss
before submitting. The Linguistics program also supports Minority
Research Planning Grants ($18,000), which can be submitted at any
time; I'd like to receive more proposals.
-- Cathy Ball
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Catherine N. Ball, Ph.D.
Program Director, Linguistics
Division of Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences
National Science Foundation
Rm. 995, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington VA 22230
Phone: 703-306-1731 Fax: 703-306-0485
cballnsf.gov http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/ling/
Attn PIs: FastLane submission req'd as of Oct. 1 2000!
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The latest edition (June 2000) of the Conference List of Linguistics and
Related Topics is now available at
http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/conf.html
A total of 53 new conferences and workshops have been included. Thanks to
all who provided details. Please let me know if there are any errors.
Regards
Peter White
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Peter White
Centre for Language Teaching and Research
University of Queensland, Qld 4072
Australia
Fax: +61 7 3365 7077
Email: peterwlingua.cltr.uq.edu.au, or pbwhitepowerup.com.au
Web: http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/~peterw
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